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WorksheetsReshaping the Nation
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 16mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which faction in Congress wanted Reconstruction to punish the former Confederacy, disenfranchise large numbers of Southern whites, and confiscate the property of leading Confederates?
a)
The Whigs
b)
Radical Republicans
c)
Free Soilers
d)
Democrats
2.
Southerners who agreed with Reconstruction policies were called what name by fellow Southerners?
a)
Carbetbaggers
b)
Scoundrels
c)
Scalawags
d)
Serpents
3.
What role did African Americans play in Southern reconstruction?
a)
judges
b)
Police Officers
c)
lawyers
d)
Elected Politicians
4.
The 14th Amendment sought to ensure equal treatment by creating what policy?
a)
Granting citizenship to all American born people
b)
banning slavery in the US
c)
Giving all Americans the right to vote
d)
Allowing segregation in the US
5.
What was President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
a)
Unity Plan
b)
Reconstruction Plan
c)
Amnesty Plan
d)
10% Plan
6.
Northerners who came to the South during Reconstruction looking for economic opportunities were called
a)
Republicans
b)
Carbetbaggers
c)
Filibusters
d)
Scalawags
7.
Poll taxes and literacy tests were part of ____________ enacted by some Southern States to deny African Americans certain rights
a)
Slave Codes
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
Civil Rights Laws
d)
Race Laws
8.
In Plessy vs. Ferguson, the Supreme Court established the general principle that
a)
states could not prevent Blacks from voting just because their grandparents had been slaves
b)
States could require separate accommodations for races as long as they were equal
c)
Local governments could enforce racial segregation by neighborhood
d)
States could uses poll taxes to establish voting qualifications
9.
What innovation drastically decreased travel time across the United States in the 1860's?
a)
The automobile
b)
Transcontinental Railroad
c)
Airplane
d)
Steamboat
10.
What was the purpose of the Homestead Act?
a)
lure farmers to settle the Great Plains
b)
Displace Native Americans to reservation
c)
create new states
d)
encourage more trade along the Mississippi River
11.
Which of the following events contributed to the decline of the Native American way of life in the end of the 19th century?
a)
Trail of Tears
b)
Decline of the American Buffalo
c)
Tuscarora Wars
d)
Indian Removal Act
12.
________________ sprung up almost overnight around the cattle industry.
a)
Boomtowns
b)
Ranch Towns
c)
Farm Towns
d)
Cow Towns
13.
The turn of the 19th Century, what groups of people dominated the American West?
a)
Farmers, miners, cowboys
b)
Soldiers, carbetbaggers, farmers
c)
Immigrants, railroad tycoons, fur traders
d)
Native Americans, immigrants, scalawags
14.
___________ revolutionized the steel industry and became one of America's first milliionaires
a)
Samuel Morse
b)
Robert Fulton
c)
John D Rockefeller
d)
Andrew Carnegie
15.
______________ invented the light bulb at the turn of the century.
a)
Eli Whitney
b)
Albert Einstein
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
Andrew Carnegie
16.
Most immigrants arriving from Europe were processed through what facility?
a)
The Statue of Liberty
b)
Ellis Island
c)
Angel Island
d)
Liberty Harbot
17.
Most Asian immigrants to the US were processed through what facility?
a)
The Statue of Liberty
b)
Ellis Island
c)
Angel Island
d)
Liberty Harbor
18.
Immigrants moved to rundown apartments known as:
a)
Ghettos
b)
Slums
c)
Projects
d)
Tenements
19.
Unsafe working conditions and a lack of building regulations lead to one of the deadliest workplace disasters at:
a)
Pullman Railroad Factory
b)
Lowell Mill
c)
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
d)
Ellis Island
20.
_______________ became an American territory when sugar planters overthrew the Queen.
a)
Samoa
b)
Cuba
c)
Guam
d)
Hawaii
21.
What event sparked the beginning of the Spanish-American War?
a)
The sinking of the Lusitania
b)
The sinking of the Maine
c)
The sinking of the Titanic
d)
The sinking of the Franz Ferdinand
22.
Secretary of State, William Seward, sent a message of American expansionism with the purchase of what territory?
a)
Alaska
b)
Hawaii
c)
Guam
d)
Samoa
23.
Which of the following lands came under the United States control as a result of the Spanish-American War?
a)
Cuba
b)
Spain
c)
Panama
d)
Hawaii
24.
What was "dollar diplomacy"?
a)
efforts by President Taft to promote its financial or commercial interests abroad
b)
President McKinley sending marines to a country to enforce a decision
c)
efforts by President Cleveland to strengthen the value of the American dollar
d)
President Roosevelt encouraging foreign companies to locate in the US
25.
President Roosevelt expanded American influence and interest in Latin America with what action?
a)
Initiating the Spanish-American War
b)
Encouraging a take over fo the Hawaiian government
c)
annexing the Philippines
d)
Financing the building of the Panama Canal
26.
Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests were part of ___________________ enacted by Southern States to deny African Americans rights
a)
Slave Codes
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
Civil Rights Laws
d)
Race Laws
27.
Immigrants moved into rundown, substandard apartments, known as:
a)
Ghettos
b)
Tenements
c)
Slums
d)
Reservations
28.
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Crazy Horse
c)
Wright Brothers
d)
John Wilkes Booth
29.
Invented the telephone
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Crazy Horse
c)
Wright Brothers
d)
John Wilkes Booth
30.
Sioux leader responsible for the Fetterman Massacre
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Crazy Horse
c)
Wright Brothers
d)
John Wilkes Booth
31.
Responsible for the first crewed airplane flight
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Crazy Horse
c)
Wright Brothers
d)
John Wilkes Booth
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